Re: follow the following
Hi,
I'm writing a user manual at the moment and wonder whether there's a better way of saying:
To perform the desired action follow the following steps:
It just seems very clumsy. Our style is a bit formal, so saying 'do the following' or something like that would not be correct. I'm leaning towards 'perform the steps provided below:' but that seems a but cumbersome. Any ideas?
We avoid the problem by using special procedure heads
that start with an infinitive and are accompanied by
a glyph. Once the head says "To X the Y," than you don't
have to introduce the steps in the procedure with any
text at all.
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follow the following: From: Esthee Erasmus
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